Cryptic diversity and morphological convergence in threatened species of fossorial skinks in the genus Scelotes (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Western Cape Coast of South Africa: Implications for species boundaries, digit reduction and conservation

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 823-833

  Heideman, Neil J L ^a   Mulcahy, Daniel G ^b   Sites, Jack W ^b   Hendricks, Martin G J ^c   Daniels, Savel R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation; Digit loss; Lizards; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear DNA; Phylogenetics; Scincinae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORELIMB; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOES;

SCELOTES; SCELOTES BIPES; SCELOTES GRONOVII; SCELOTES KASNERI; SCELOTES SEXLINEATUS; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 80055110129     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.021     Document Type: Article

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